History

Road to Revolution Timeline

  • Molasses Act

    Molasses Act
    a British law passed in 1733 that taxed molasses, rum, and sugar imported into the North American colonies from non-British countries
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War
    began: August 1756 ,, ended: February of 1763 Territories northern of the Ohio River Valley where both the French and British had claimed as their territory so they went to war to settle who owns the land there
  • Navigation Acts

    Navigation Acts
    controlled what England and its colonies could import, or bring in to a place, and export, or send out to other places
  • Fort Necessity

    Fort Necessity
    George Washington built it to battle the French, at the start of the French and Indian War
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    Great Britain taxed the colonist on their sugar and other goods
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Great Britain taxed all legal and official papers on the colonists to pay off the debt they were in
  • Declaratory Acts

    Declaratory Acts
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
  • General Gage takes over Boston

    General Gage takes over Boston
  • Intolerable Act

    Intolerable Act
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
  • Administration of Justice

    Administration of Justice
  • Quebec Act

    Quebec Act
  • Paul Revere's Ride

    Paul Revere's Ride
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord